Fill your word lists from our 420+ pre-made lists

Every teacher focused on differentiated spelling has had the experience of searching for words that fit the specific lesson and grade level.

This frequently requires you to search through Google, Teachers Pay Teachers, ChatGPT, or your specific spelling system's texts. Often at night or on the weekend, when you have limited time.

And, worse, once you've found the list of words you want to use to reinforce the lesson, you then have to spend time formatting them into worksheets.

Who has time for that?

You can now find pre-made spelling lists in Spelling Test Buddy!

If you prefer video, watch this short 24 second YouTube video:

When you are editing a word list, tap on Pick from one of our word lists below your words:

From there, pick from one of main categories:

Each category has a number of lists of words. For example, Closed Syllables 1 has over 30 lists, like this:

When you choose a list, you can review the words before adding them to your list:

Tap on “Yes, add them” and your words are added to your list!

These spelling word lists are researched-backed, and are aligned with Words Their Way (WTW), Orton-Gillingham’s word list strategies, and UFLI (University of Florida Literacy Institute).

If you have feedback or positive results with these pre-made word lists, please reach out and let me know!

Reminder: Free Plans are changing on Jan 18, 2025

As a reminder, if you signed up for Spelling Test Buddy in 2024 and are using it in the classroom, the free plan you are on will be changing to the Basic plan next Saturday, January 18. Please upgrade to the Teacher plan today to unlock these limits.

For those of you who have already done so - thank you! There’s some great features coming in 2025 that I think you will like.

Thank you,

Jason Shah
- Creator of Spelling Test Buddy